Deuteronomy 4:39-40
King James Version
39 Know therefore this day,
and consider it in thine heart,
that the Lord he is God in heaven above,
and upon the earth beneath:
there is none else.
40 Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes,
and his commandments,
which I command thee this day,
that it may go well with thee,
and with thy children after thee,
and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth,
which the Lord thy God giveth thee,
for ever.
GOD is always consistent.
He wanted Canaanites wiped out.
If we think that's a terrible thing, let us hear GOD out.
We are treading on HOLY ground here.
We must understand the context.
That is the objective of this blog.
The LORD sent the flood, wiping out all wickedness from earth.
Except for Noah, who had three sons.
One was Ham, who begat Canaan.
Through Canaan, the Canaanites descended.
Through Canaan, the Canaanites were cursed.
It's time we knew what GOD thought of the Canaanites.
And what He wanted His chosen people to do.
Zechariah spoke of GOD's desire in the "day of the Lord":
Zechariah 14:21
King James Version
21 Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah
shall be holiness unto the Lord of hosts:
and all they that sacrifice
shall come and take of them,
and seethe therein:
and in that day
there shall be no more the Canaanite
in the house of the Lord of hosts.
GOD commanded Moses to do these:
Deuteronomy 7:1-2
King James Version
7 When the Lord thy God shall bring thee
into the land whither thou goest to possess it,
and hath cast out many nations before thee,
the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites,
and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites,
and the Hivites, and the Jebusites,
seven nations greater and mightier than thou;
2 And when the Lord thy God
shall deliver them before thee;
thou shalt smite them,
and utterly destroy them;
thou shalt make no covenant with them,
nor shew mercy unto them:
Deuteronomy 7:3
King James Version
3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them;
thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son,
nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
Deuteronomy 7:5
King James Version
5 But thus shall ye deal with them;
ye shall destroy their altars,
and break down their images,
and cut down their groves,
and burn their graven images with fire.
Deuteronomy 7:16
King James Version
16 And thou shalt consume all the people
which the Lord thy God shall deliver thee;
thine eye shall have no pity upon them:
neither shalt thou serve their gods;
for that will be a snare unto thee.
Deuteronomy 7:17-19
King James Version
17 If thou shalt say in thine heart,
These nations are more than I;
how can I dispossess them?
18 Thou shalt not be afraid of them:
but shalt well remember what the Lord thy God
did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;
19 The great temptations which thine eyes saw,
and the signs, and the wonders,
and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm,
whereby the Lord thy God brought thee out:
so shall the Lord thy God do unto all the people
of whom thou art afraid.
Deuteronomy 7:20-21
King James Version
20 Moreover the Lord thy God
will send the hornet among them,
until they that are left,
and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.
21 Thou shalt not be affrighted at them:
for the Lord thy God is among you,
a mighty God and terrible.
Deuteronomy 7:22-23
King James Version
22 And the Lord thy God will put out those nations
before thee by little and little:
thou mayest not consume them at once,
lest the beasts of the field increase upon thee.
23 But the Lord thy God shall deliver them unto thee,
and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction,
until they be destroyed.
Deuteronomy 7:24
King James Version
24 And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand,
and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven:
there shall no man be able to stand before thee,
until thou have destroyed them.
Deuteronomy 20:16-17
King James Version
16 But of the cities of these people,
which the Lord thy God doth give thee for an inheritance,
thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:
17 But thou shalt utterly destroy them;
namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites,
the Canaanites, and the Perizzites,
the Hivites, and the Jebusites;
as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee:
Why does GOD want the Canaanites destroyed?
Why doesn't He want them in His house?
Why will they be "cleared" from His house?
We shall find out on the next post.
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